The second event of the 2025 Neuse Sport Shop Eastern NC Bass Challenge season took place this past weekend on Kerr Lake. 135 teams competed in the event. The fishing on Kerr Lake was great as 93 limits of bass were brought to the Bass Challenge scales Saturday afternoon. The lake produced numerous 3-5 pound bass.
After all 135 teams weighed in Saturday, it was Jimmy Roughton and Neil Smith who took the victory. The team brought 19.75 pounds of bass to the scales and weighed in the tournament big fish which was 5.69 pounds!
After the tournament, we talked to Jimmy Roughton about their day:
“Recently, Neil and I have started practicing for these tournaments separately in our own boats. We can cover different sections of the lake faster that way. On Friday, we both found fish up the lake and down in Nutbush. We decided to start our day in Nutbush Creek. In the first 10 minutes, Neil caught a 3.5-pounder, and then soon after, I caught a 5. We decided then to stay in Nutbush all day. On Friday, I found a big one on the bed that was about 5 pounds. I could tell she wasn’t ready to bite. We checked her early Saturday and she still wasn’t ready. At the end of the tournament, we stopped on her again, and she was finally ready, and we caught her.”
Jimmy went on to say, “We fished for big fish all day. No senkos, nothing small. We focused primarily on secondary points because everyone was going back into the pockets. We felt like there was too much pressure in the pockets so we stayed on the secondary points leading into those pockets.”
They won our Neuse Sport Shop $5,100 1st place prize and our Greenville Toyota $400 tournament big bass award! Jimmy Roughton was also fishing the event out of a new Triton Bass Boat that made him eligible for the $8,000 Triton Gold contingency prize, making the team’s total take-home winnings $13,500!
Our next event will be April 19 on the Roanoke River in Plymouth, NC.
The Bass Challenge paid cash prizes to our top 22 teams in this event. It took 13.66 pounds to finish inside the Bass Challenge money line.
| POS | BOAT | TEAM | FISH | BIG FISH | FINAL |
| 1 |  |
Neil Smith / Jimmy Roughton | 5 | 5.69 | 19.75 |
| 2 |  |
Hunter Jones / David Jones | 5 | 4.25 | 17.66 |
| 3 | |
Paul King / Brad Stain | 5 | 4.45 | 17.11 |
| 4 |  |
Powell Kemp / Michael Chlomoudis | 5 | 3.86 | 17.05 |
| 5 | |
Mike May / Cliff Jenkins | 5 | 5.04 | 16.90 |
| 6 | Josh Brown / Kyle Smith | 5 | 4.99 | 16.37 | |
| 7 | Chris Turner / Ricky Mize | 5 | 4.1 | 16.14 | |
| 8 | Greg Milligan / Tom Warner | 5 | 4.22 | 15.51 | |
| 9 | |
Shawn Hammack / Flash Butts | 5 | 15.49 | |
| 10 | Austin Woody / Zach Smith | 5 | 14.66 | ||
| 11 | Brock Rouse / Parker Mills | 5 | 14.47 | ||
| 11 | Scooter Lilley / Eric Galasso | 5 | 14.47 | ||
| 13 | Jordan Brown / Brandon Carter | 5 | 4.4 | 14.40 | |
| 14 | Brandon Parson / Tim Jacobs | 5 | 4.41 | 14.37 | |
| 15 | Timmy Piacitelli / Joey Beall | 5 | 4.39 | 14.36 | |
| 16 | Billy Bledsoe / Tanner Bledsoe | 5 | 14.29 | ||
| 17 | Tyler Trent / Ricky Trent | 5 | 14.20 | ||
| 18 | Chase Crocker / Tyler Little | 5 | 14.14 | ||
| 19 | JT Denton / Stephen Denton | 5 | 13.98 | ||
| 20 | Jason Tripp / Brandon Overton | 5 | 13.73 | ||
| 21 | Jason Pittman / Jeremy Hodge | 5 | 13.67 | ||
| 22 | Howard Bohannon / Beverly Bohannon | 5 | 13.66 | ||
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| 23 | Seth Barnes / Brian Williams | 5 | 13.29 | ||
| 24 | Jason White / Charles Weathersbee | 5 | 13.22 | ||
| 25 | Noah Peters / Jesse Wade | 5 | 3.16 | 13.16 | |
| 26 | Jon Dupree / Jerry Abrams | 5 | 13.01 | ||
| 27 | Walt Goff / Eric Murphy | 5 | 12.96 | ||
| 28 | Randy Gilledpie / Shanan Gillespie | 5 | 12.80 | ||
| 29 | Richard Ludwig / Mary Ludwig | 5 | 12.69 | ||
| 30 | Jeff Milligan / Wilbur Westbrooke | 5 | 12.54 | ||
| 30 | Danyan Winn / Jesse Kidd | 5 | 12.54 | ||
| 32 | Kirk Nixon / Trent Nixon | 5 | 12.45 | ||
| 33 | Eric Brown / Rusty Brown | 5 | 4.08 | 12.44 | |
| 34 | Al Lancaster / Robbie House | 5 | 12.40 | ||
| 35 | Brody Brown / Carl Whittington | 5 | 12.36 | ||
| 36 | Justin Chamblee / Josh Powell | 5 | 4.76 | 12.32 | |
| 37 | Brian Stalls / Kyle White | 5 | 12.22 | ||
| 38 | Donna Wilson / Mike Whitehurst | 5 | 4.07 | 12.18 | |
| 39 | Robert Prevatte / MAURICE Hudson | 5 | 12.16 | ||
| 40 | Tanner Glasgow / Spencer Glasgow | 5 | 12.10 | ||
| 41 | Brandon Johnson / Wilson Johnson | 5 | 12.09 | ||
| 42 | Adam Harris / Timothy Harris | 5 | 11.96 | ||
| 43 | Raymond Jones, III / Braxton Chase | 5 | 11.94 | ||
| 44 | Braxton Bridgers / Alan Edwards | 5 | 3.54 | 11.82 | |
| 45 | Chris Hamilton / Jamie Hill | 5 | 11.69 | ||
| 46 | Robert Perkins / Spencer Barrow | 5 | 11.60 | ||
| 47 | Fred Stancil / Clayton Boyette | 5 | 4.1 | 11.51 | |
| 48 | Holden Northcott / Austin Hughes | 5 | 11.47 | ||
| 49 | Dean Thompson / Steve Vann | 5 | 11.33 | ||
| 50 | Anthony Carroll / Chris Carroll | 5 | 11.30 | ||
| 51 | Steve Michaels / Jonathon Dail | 5 | 11.27 | ||
| 52 | Daniel Boseman / Jordan Hughes | 5 | 11.23 | ||
| 53 | Shane Burns / Jody Campbell | 5 | 11.17 | ||
| 54 | Justin Coley / Tony Coley | 5 | 3.86 | 11.16 | |
| 55 | Lee Tart / Nate Ross | 5 | 11.11 | ||
| 55 | Wayne Harris / Larry Thomas | 5 | 11.11 | ||
| 57 | Junior Barrow / Roy Norville | 5 | 10.99 | ||
| 58 | Adam Richardson / Bentley Richardson | 5 | 10.96 | ||
| 59 | Andy Thomas / | 5 | 10.94 | ||
| 60 | Jerry Langley / Matthew Langley | 5 | 10.83 | ||
| 60 | Norman Mullinax / | 5 | 10.83 | ||
| 62 | Jody Wynn / Troy Modlin | 5 | 3.39 | 10.80 | |
| 63 | Don Farley / Zack Farley | 5 | 10.72 | ||
| 64 | Ken Hoffman / Larry Thomas | 5 | 3.12 | 10.66 | |
| 65 | Bobby Clark / Tommy Hughes | 5 | 10.63 | ||
| 66 | Ryan Harrell / | 5 | 10.54 | ||
| 66 | Trey Nanney / Jon Phillips | 5 | 10.54 | ||
| 68 | Patrick Williams / Kevin Williams | 5 | 10.45 | ||
| 69 | Buster Seabolt / Mike Hair | 5 | 10.40 | ||
| 70 | Wayne Hoskins / William Hoskins | 5 | 10.32 | ||
| 71 | Cole Wilkins / Zach Marland | 5 | 10.26 | ||
| 72 | Joe Smith / Raeford Faircloth | 5 | 10.25 | ||
| 73 | Bryan Briesemeister, Jr. / Bryan Briesemeister, Sr. | 5 | 10.22 | ||
| 74 | Justin Hof / Justin Peaden | 5 | 10.18 | ||
| 75 | Wayne Stallings / Justin Everett | 5 | 9.98 | ||
| 76 | Charlie Allen / Lee Mitchell | 5 | 9.96 | ||
| 77 | Dylan Reason / Austin Lancaster | 5 | 9.91 | ||
| 78 | Carroll Ward / Steve Brinkley | 5 | 9.79 | ||
| 79 | Roger Thomas / Dylan Thomas | 5 | 9.73 | ||
| 80 | Ron Clark / Ronnie Clark | 5 | 9.69 | ||
| 81 | Edward Townsend / Dexter Hurley | 5 | 9.66 | ||
| 81 | Shawn Dunlap / Ken Kipler | 5 | 9.66 | ||
| 83 | Eugene Foushee / Aaron Hershberger | 5 | 9.31 | ||
| 84 | James Abston / Ronald Jones | 5 | 9.30 | ||
| 85 | Will McKeel / Cody Barnes | 5 | 9.23 | ||
| 86 | Scott Combs / Sammy Barrow | 5 | 9.02 | ||
| 87 | Keith Roberts / Billy Owens | 5 | 8.86 | ||
| 88 | Greg Creech / Chris McDuffie | 5 | 8.64 | ||
| 89 | Al Kennedy / Justin Kennedy | 5 | 8.39 | ||
| 90 | John Dunn / Austin Burgess | 5 | 8.22 | ||
| 91 | Lee Horner / Aaron Miller | 5 | 8.17 | ||
| 92 | Ricky Foss / George Long | 4 | 8.14 | ||
| 93 | George Vogt / Gil Burk | 4 | 7.80 | ||
| 94 | Terry Matton / Scott Matton | 4 | 7.66 | ||
| 95 | Anthony Horton / Mark Remington | 4 | 7.32 | ||
| 96 | Mitchell Hofler / Zach Nicholson | 4 | 7.20 | ||
| 97 | George Casey / | 4 | 7.09 | ||
| 98 | Jim Krozser / David Meissner | 5 | 6.99 | ||
| 99 | Dennis Boykin / Jimmy Hipkiss | 4 | 6.97 | ||
| 100 | Thomas Craft / Jordan Barrow | 5 | 6.86 | ||
| 101 | Jason Smith / Rick Foss, Jr. | 4 | 6.68 | ||
| 102 | Brandon Pearce / Stacey Hobson | 4 | 5.98 | ||
| 103 | JA Williford / Johnny Jones | 4 | 5.51 | ||
| 104 | Wyatt Kimmy / Adam Lowe | 3 | 3.79 | ||
| 105 | Joseph Jernigan / Scott Thomas | 2 | 3.07 | ||
| 106 | Lee Jones / Anthony Jones | 2 | 2.74 | ||
| 107 | Mike Henson / Jeff Stoop | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Scott Griffin / Jay Allen | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Bobby Lassiter / Chris Smith | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Travis Mewborn / Tanner Beaman | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Winston (Buzzy) Clinedinst / Logan Leary | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Nathan Ferguson / | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Phillip Medford / Tammy Medford | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Jeremy Ives / sub(Mitch Mason) | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Zeb West / Rex Thomas | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Drew Matthews / Brayden Johnson | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Brandon Sykes / Kevin Sutton | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Craig Goess / Matthew Oakley | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Tony Coats / Ronald Straughn | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Joey Rouse / | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Jordan Sanderlin / Andrew George | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Chris Williams / Dale Wilson | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Andy Harris / Jesse Gilbert | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Shawn Keene / Amy Fulwiler | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Blake Eatmon / sub (Joe Lybrand) | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Jacob Brown / Rhett Brown | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Zach Van Voorhees / | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Red Ligon / | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Stanton McDuffie / Keith Patterson | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Steve Bishop / Daryl Peele | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Jim Dick / Greg Dick | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Mike Williams / Marshall Padrick | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Jason Carver / Shane Carver | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Ben Hudson / Robert Hudson | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| 107 | Hunter Medford / Dylan Mizell | 0 | 0.00 | ||
